skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The results are from pollfish which is one of those places you can get paid less than a $1 to take surveys. People who take these things are afraid of being disqualified from being paid because they need that $1 so I would not be surprised if there were a lot of very obvious leading questions.
Isn’t it crazy how everything that could maybe dig us out of this hole is being held back because a few extremely rich people have a small chance of losing a tiny bit of money.
This is true of people as well. And yes, there is acceptable inaccuracy in legal, compliance, healthcare, safety, etc, it's just very low. There's even a saying for dealing with it: "get a second opinion".
What repercussions? The goal was to send a public message to journalists and dissidents and they succeeded in doing exactly that.
https://suchir.net/fair_use.html

> none of the arguments here are fundamentally specific to ChatGPT either, and similar arguments could be made for many generative AI products in a wide variety of domains.

Coming to this conclusion would basically prevent him from working on his passion basically anywhere. He also had to experience OpenAI's gaslighting about being a nonprofit trying to save humanity firsthand.
So: that specific comment was posted three times, by accounts named strattonoakmont, strattonoak, and theoak. I googled the first and got this wikipedia page:

> Stratton Oakmont, Inc. was a Long Island, New York, over-the-counter brokerage house founded in 1989 by Jordan Belfort and Danny Porush. It defrauded many shareholders, leading to the arrest and incarceration of several executives and the closing of the firm in 1996.

It's the company from the Wolf of Wall street.
Yeah, I've used this to my advantage: Sell my boss on the idea that we had a real problem and I could address it instead of doing some other lower-value tasks; essentially re-shaping my own role into something that I found much more fulfilling and resume-enhancing than whatever I'd be doing otherwise.
He was going to testify in a case involving openAIs illegal usage of copy right data and text. There’s a lot to be gained with his death.
Wish I'd known about Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' first - I came expecting practical Unix time insights, but found an attempt at satire in need of both editing and purpose.
Right, there's an ecosystem of tooling around Wordpress because of its long standing inertia, if a superior product was able to compete and grow it could produce the same or better level of tooling.
How could this kind of ‘hiding’ comply with GAAP standards in any scenario?

What sort of accounting books were being prepared where such a function is even needed?
Browsers Are Absolutely Unusable
This isn't true, and especially not true of Claude. Could you say this in a more testable way?
A more informative question is:

_Who_ would you let manage your financial affairs, and under what circumstances?

To which my answer would be something like: a qualified financial adviser with a good track record, who can be trusted to do the job to, if not the best of their abilities, at least an acceptable level of professional competence.

A related question: who would you let give you a lift someplace in a car?

And here's where things get interesting. Because on the one hand there's a LOT more at stake (literally, your life), and yet various social norms, conventions , economic pressures and so on mean that in practice we quite often entrust that responsibility to people who are very, very far from performing at their best.

So while a financial adviser AI is useless unless it can perform at the level of a trained professional doing their job (or unless it can perform at maybe 95% of that level at much lower cost), a self-driving car is at least _potentially_ useful if it's only somewhat better than people at or close to their worst. As a high proportion of road traffic collisions are caused by people who are drunk, tired, emotionally unstable or otherwise very very far from the peak performance of a human being operating a car.

(We can argue that a system which routinely requires people to carry out life-or-death, mission-critical tasks while significantly impaired is dangerously flawed and needs a major overhaul, but that's a slightly different debate).
This is utter malarkey. Also funny that this is one of the bullet points on their About page:

> The use of bus transport, including rapid bus lanes, as well as new technologies, including firms like Uber and driverless cars, need to be considered as potential answers to the issue of urban mobility

Emphasis mine. Anytime I see someone who thinks Uber is a good, urbanist solution, I know not to take them seriously.
I think of ChatGPT as a faster Google or Stackoverflow and all of my colleagues are using it almost exclusively in this way. That is still quite impressive but it isn’t what Altman set out to achieve (and he admits this quite candidly).

What would make me change my mind? If ChatGPT could take the lead on designing a robot through all the steps: design, contract the parts and assembly, market it, and sell it that would really be something.

I assume for something like this to happen it would need all source code and design docs from Boston Dynamics in the training set. It seems unlikely it could independently make the same discoveries on its own.
Show HN: An edge first feature flag implementation on Cloudflare
FlagShip is a serverless feature flag application that you can host and manage yourself on Cloudflare.
This work is the outcome of my Master's thesis where I evaluate the feasibility and performance benefits of building stateful serverless applications at the edge.
Defence Intelligence: Probability Yardstick
AI is so broad. There is no slowing down.
Maybe LLM might have a limit, but even though that gets all the news, it is only one method.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/27/godfather...

The British-Canadian computer scientist often touted as a "godfather" of artificial intelligence has shortened the odds of AI wiping out humanity over the next three decades, warning the pace of change in the technology is "much faster" than expected. From a report:
Prof Geoffrey Hinton, who this year was awarded the Nobel prize in physics for his work in AI, said there was a "10 to 20" per cent chance that AI would lead to human extinction within the next three decades.

Previously Hinton had said there was a 10% chance of the technology triggering a catastrophic outcome for humanity. Asked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme if he had changed his analysis of a potential AI apocalypse and the one in 10 chance of it happening, he said: "Not really, 10 to 20 [per cent]."
Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life
Hey HN!

I used to spend hours drawing all kind of things as a kid. Sadly though, those drawings are long gone.

Inspired by this, I created DoodleDreams. A webapp that brings drawings to life using AI and stores them as memories. You can always look back at the drawings, see who made them, and even know the age they were drawn at.

I thought it was a fun way to preserve those memories. What do you think?

Viktor
There are a few from Artech house you can find.
I wish, but this is an unsubstantiated claim.

WordPress is for people who don’t work at FAANG. If this is the best they can do so far, there is no reason to believe they’ll do better next time. And that’s okay - we can’t all be FAANG. FAANG standards would be considered delusional compared to most code out there.

Remember that WordPress is the way it is, and it still has a multi-billion dollar company behind it. This is the best a normal, non-FAANG, billionaire organization could do. Which shows, in my opinion, how much of a bubble the code quality purists actually live in.
Find the guys who usually park at expensive family homes, but occasionally visit a known brothel, then blackmail them.

We all just let surveillance haplen to us, in fact we paid for most of it
The purpose of the title is not to distribute credit.

It's to provide information about the link. People in HN don't know Levin (yet). The nave conveys no information. . Everybody knows DJB and Lange.
It isn't just "not apples to apples". It's apples to supercomputers.
I believe the suicide because this occurred right after he was named as a defendant in a lawsuit right alongside OpenAI

This means that he had ostracized himself from the AI industry and is still seen as representative of it by the creatives he tried to cozy up to with his half baked legal theories he tried to whistleblow with
Hilarious indeed! https://chatgpt.com/share/676ef6e2-4f4c-800e-aa56-4450056c24...
Presumably, we'll find out now that he's being extradited to stand trial here in the US.

The complaint is here: https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/distributions-har...
I'll just leave this here: "High conspiracy belief is associated with low critical thinking ability" (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/acp.3790), previously discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27806447.

Most here on HN seem to have fairly high critical thinking ability.
> Nobody has a right to an audience.

The GP isn't asking for an audience. (Except if you mean "with the king", because that's exactly what the comment is asking for.)

> Well the copyright and the site are American so probably America

The GP didn't tell you who the copyright owner is. And Google is present in more than one country.

That said, yes, your last paragraph is a good hint. The world should just think very hard about blocking every large US business.
This is like an xkcd comic as a blog post
Where can someone be started with this kind of programming?
System verification etc, books? youtube lectures?
The problem with satellites however is that they cannot loiter, so the window in which they can gather data is limited and predictable. They are also essentially fixed on their track - changing orbit requires fuel. Drones (and old-fashioned spy planes) do not suffer from that limitation.
Any serious hardware Ansar Allah operates is provided by Iran, and Iran is not capable of shooting down IAF aircraft flying over their own territory. Ansar Allah did not shoot down an F-18.
A radius of 100mi from any military base would amount to a no-fly zone over most of the US.
I don't understand why people feel the need to lie in these posts. AI isn't only good at using existing codebases. Copy your code in. It will understand it. You either haven't tried or are intentionally misleading people.
Me: How many squirrels are in my backyard?

Claude: I'm unable to see your backyard or count any squirrels there. I would need either a photo of your backyard or specific information from you about the squirrels you've observed to help answer this question.

Me: What kind of information do you need?

Claude: To help estimate the number of squirrels in your backyard, I'd find it helpful to know:
The approximate size of your backyard
Your general location/region, since different areas have different squirrel species and populations
The type of habitat features present (trees, bird feeders, gardens, etc.)
When and how often you typically see squirrels there
This information would help me provide a more educated estimate based on typical squirrel population densities and behavior patterns.

Me: I'm in a piedmont region with a quarter acre backyard and a bird feeder

Claude: Based on your location in the Piedmont region and yard features, you likely have Eastern Gray Squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis), which are common in that area. With a quarter acre backyard that has a bird feeder, which serves as a food source, you probably have a small resident population of 2-4 squirrels.
Bird feeders are strong attractants for squirrels, and a quarter acre is enough space to be part of several squirrels' overlapping home ranges. You might see more squirrels visiting occasionally, especially during peak feeding times in early morning and late afternoon, but the resident population that considers your yard part of their core territory is likely in that 2-4 range.

Checks out
Is that cumulative or annual?
> As of right now, we have no way of knowing in advance what the capabilities of current AI systems will be if we are able to scale them by 10x, 100x, 1000x, and more.

Uhh, yes we do.

I mean sure, we don't know everything, but we know one thing which is very important and which isn't under debate by anyone who knows how current AI works: current AI response quality cannot surpass the quality of its inputs (which include both training data and code assumptions).

> The number of neuron-neuron connections in current AI systems is still tiny compared to the human brain.

And it's become abundantly clear that this isn't the important difference between current AI and the human brain for two reasons: 1) there are large scale structural differences which contain implicit, inherited input data which goes beyond neuron quantity, and 2) as I said before, we cannot surpass the quality of input data, and current training data sets clearly do not contain all the input data one would need to train a human brain anyway.

It's true we don't know exactly what would happen if we scaled up a current-model AI to human brain size, but we do know that it would not produce a human brain level of intelligence. The input datasets we have simply do not contain a human level of intelligence.
If a hacker just went against the official narrative as a knee jerk reaction that would make them more like a rebellious teenager no?

In a sense you are agreeing that this as tragic as it is probable needs no further discussion
The title refers to a 1729 Jonathan Swift essay, "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick"[1].

As with the subject article, Swift's work begins reasonably enough, and contains much great discussion before veering off wildly at the end.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
But do they have strong beaks?

https://sktchd.com/column/comics-disassembled-ten-things-of-...
Unix time should never have been a number of seconds.

It should be a structured of the iso datetime fields, like in "struct tm", see https://cplusplus.com/reference/ctime/tm/
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleva_(airplane)
we could fix timezones too, by rearranging the continents (and the civilizations within them) into a narrow longitudinal strip
Depends what you're doing.

For "stay in your lane" stuff, I agree, it relatively sucks.

For "today I need do stuff two lanes over", well it still needs the babysitting, and I still wouldn't put it on tasks where I can't verify the output, but it definitely delivers a productivity boost IME.
Well if you read beyond the headline.

His extradition was approved to both the US and SK. SK is his home country who also wants him in prison for the scam.
how is what do did different from what marketers did?

I think building something interesting, but not marketing it to investors, should be legal/ok, but the moment you start telling the story of this product being a safe 20% return investment is when you need to get in trouble.
What makes a language pretty? I'm not sure I ever saw/heard one that was pretty beyond what I'd say is in the eye/ear of the beholder

But agreed on it being pretty useless outside of a few small regions / couple million speakers. I've been saying we should apply winning team joining and get to something more internationally useful, as everyone here seems to already agree we are small and that trade and cooperation has brought the current prosperity. The area I'm from, though, people clutch to local dialects as cultural heritage that should be continued to be spoken... it doesn't even have a writing system... whatever, I don't mind so long as people are okay with a useful language alongside
Those employees revolted to bring Sam back after he was dismissed by the board. They know what's up.
the plane probably got hit by a pantsir missile, not autocannon fire. the damage is consistent with a proximity fuse warhead detonation. mh17 had exactly the same type of holes, except the buk missile is more powerful...
Eh, "consented to" is rather weak when you are forced to hit the "I agree" button to be able to drive the car you bought. That and forced arbitration need to die posthaste.
Show HN: Flags.gg
Not quite finished yet, but ready enough to soft launch, its a React landing page (needs redesigning really), NextJS dashboard, Go backend

Its a multi-project, multi-agent, multi-environment flags system, that has (imo) generous allowances for free

There is a few things that are still in the roadmap

- Conflict Flags (turning 1 flag on, auto turns off a different one)

- Environment promotion (currently flags have to be added to each env)

- Server-side usage support (only React/NextJS frontend is supported atm)
Leap seconds are about keeping 12pm synchronized with solar noon, not the length of the year?

This makes no sense:

> … or not add leap seconds and allow the year to drift with respect to the day.
The simplest solution is to uplift a polite portion of the Earth's mass into an orbital habitation ring, and use a feedback controller to regulate the amounts being launched, to keep the rotational period stabilized (in accordance with conservation of angular momentum) at an integer ratio to the sidereal year.

And for the other challenge, to stabilize the variation of the the sidereal year (i.e. the gravities of Jupiter &c. pulling the orbit slightly faster or slower), we simply schedule the launches at either the fore- (morning) or aft- (evening) ends.

To anyone sympathetic to my ideology, please consider using "fore", "aft", "port", and "starboard" to refer to the morning, evening, day, and night quadrants of the clock.
Even if companies do not directly kill whistleblowers, they may use targeted strategies that bury them under so much legal fees that would financially ruin them for life, have their career shattered and, through clandestine PR operations destroy their social life and public image to make an example of them, which leaves them with nothing left to fight for.
Interesting article. My main criticism is that, given ChatGPT is already used by hundreds of millions of people every day, it's difficult to argue that current AI is a dead end. It has its flaws, but it is already useful in human-in-the-loop situations. It will partly or completely change the way we search for information on the internet and greatly enhance the ability to educate ourselves on anything. This is essentially a second Wikipedia moment. So, it is useful in its current form, to some extent.
The merit concept - true or not - is that it takes extra work to both survive and study enough to earn $mega at FAANG. The work is what earns the merit.

You're arguing that it's not hard work that gets people good jobs; that the people stuck in dead end factory jobs could never work hard enough to earn $mega. Right?

I usually hear this argument being presented as one where factory worker was not given equal opportunities and/or that FAANG worker didn't earn their position. I'm not sure if you're saying that, or that the people doing pigeon jobs are naturally incapable of doing anything else, but both of those ideas sure take all the agency away from individuals.

It rings especially hollow to me as someone who didn't go to college, and taught myself to code, and makes $x per hour, and knows a lot of people (including my partner and her friends) who did go to college, who work in a factory and make 0.2*$x. While the sour grapes element and the jealousy (or covetousness mixed with some bafflement) is always there under the surface, I find it so petty. I have a hard time understanding it. If you want my job, go download a free IDE and start spending all night making stuff for 10 years while doing your day job. I did it while driving a taxi and waiting tables for minimum wage.

I think a lot of people could do it. The fact that they could, and don't, is exactly the basis for the sense of earned merit for those who do. Hot tip: Skip the marriage and kids till you get where you want to be financially. But if you do want to prioritize having a family, don't then be jealous of those who prioritized their career.
Ah, here's my daily reminder to treat my 2005 Honda like a princess and hope it never, ever dies.
a 'dust to dust' joke?

Or just saying, when facing the apocalypse, read a bible?
Hey EU, maybe mandate an opt out for all vehicle telemetry?

Then maybe the rest of the world will follow suit.

I know, I know, I am kidding myself.
I like the idea that you could consider a horse or a windmill to be AGI if you were at the right point in history.
the goal is for them to be independent variables in the statistical sense. science is a process of refinement so there will undoubtedly be improvements, but they are as independent as they can be based on current knowledge, they can be measured separately, and people exist in every combination (the scales of each measure are not dependent on one another), and we can't describe what we know about personality without including all of them. Myers-Briggs comes to mind as a comparable metric which has more dependence among its variables, and essentially ignores neuroticism.
If you're interested in DIY repairable batteries for e-bikes, check what we're building with engineers and designers from France at https://get.gouach.com :)
Except no one really disputes that training on copyrighted data and text is going on. The question is whether that is OK from a legal perspective. Which is a matter for the courts and the legislature.
I know I'm an outlier, but I have no idea what any of the new features being alluded to are.

My browser opens tabs, navigates websites, plays audio and video when I ask (and shuts the hell up when I don't, thank god), and mostly Just Works.

Granted, I'm fine with the horizontal-tabs-at-top layout, I don't particularly need or want groups, and Firefox's containers are usable enough. What's missing?
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The idea that AI will ever remove all struggle, even if it reaches AGI, is absurd. AI by itself can't give you a hug, for example--and even if advances in robotics make it possible for an AI-controlled robot to do that, there are dozens of unsolved problems beyond that to make that something that most people would even want.

AI enthusiasm really is reaching a religious level of ridiculous beliefs and this point.
I think this is where Cloudflare shines. They just focussed on the essentials with Workers (“serverless”) at the core of everything instead of VPS at the core of everything.
I plan to buy old used cars forever when I can no longer keep my 2013 Subie going.
Solar sails? Dyson sphere? Do we need to run in the same direction in a coordinated fashion?
Who's idea was it to automatically remove leading numbers in titles? And why?
Imagine if the YouTuber was advertising a blandly illegal product, should the be immune too?

I hate it when one person in organization gets in trouble, and everyone else gets away Scott free
https://archive.ph/bhjUs

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/best-books-audiobooks-reading-...
The spirit is completely gone, isn't it? When a hacker was mysteriously hanged in 1988, people discussed it for years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(hacker)

Now everyone is accusing others of "conspiracy theories" and browbeating everyone to follow the party line.
The problem was caused by Cariad, not VW directly. Cariad will be held responsible for, not VW.